“As Amos Oz, the Israeli novelist, once put it, ‘Facts at times become the dire enemies of truth.’ Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ is a poor factual account of what happened in a Basque village on April 26, 1937, and a magnificent rendering of what has happened in every village that was ever bombed in any way. The painting is a perfect journalistic dispatch, if measured by how much universal truth it contains.” (Roger Cohen, NYTimes, 4-1-18)

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